5 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior

Base Salary

$126k - $154k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the vision, governance, and implementation of the quality assurance and test automation strategy for digital applications.
  • Design, code, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, and mobile testing.
  • Contribute hands-on to full-stack application development across front-end and back-end components.
  • Perform performance testing, traffic simulation, bottleneck analysis, and continuous performance testing.
  • Use monitoring, debugging, and observability tools to conduct root-cause analysis and resolve complex issues.
  • Integrate AI capabilities for test-case generation, test-data creation, defect analysis, and testing efficiency.
  • Coach and mentor engineers on testable code, testing techniques, automation tools, and quality-first practices.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and developers to deliver stable, high-quality user experiences.
  • Lead and review QA and performance strategies and drive improvements across the development team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of hands-on technology experience with significant experience in software development and test automation.
  • Deep hands-on experience building automated test frameworks for web and mobile applications using tools such as Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Appium, and BrowserStack.
  • Extensive performance testing experience with LoadRunner, JMeter, and Gatling.
  • Strong full-stack development and testing experience with Angular, React Native, Android Native, iOS Native, Apigee, SpringBoot, and Confluent Kafka.
  • Experience with performance monitoring, debugging, and observability using Splunk, Splunk Observability, New Relic, and LogRocket.
  • Experience testing and monitoring secure public-cloud environments, preferably AWS, including CloudWatch and Performance Insights.
  • Experience across relational, object-oriented, NoSQL, and in-memory databases, as well as Drupal and CDNs such as Akamai and F5.
  • Experience integrating functional automated testing and continuous performance testing into CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
  • Experience using AI capabilities to enhance automation, generate test data, and improve testing efficiency.
  • Ability to lead technical decisions and initiatives, influence engineers, communicate complex technical concepts, and manage multiple priorities.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and strong presentation, facilitation, organizational, and self-motivation skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid Flex work arrangement in the Boston, MA office two days per week.
  • Full-time role with comprehensive benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) and a suite of physical, emotional, financial, and social well-being benefits.
  • Employer-supported professional development and resources for employee success.

Tech Stack

AngularApache JMeterAppiumAWSCypressDrupalReact NativeSeleniumSplunk
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

About Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

1,001-5,000 employees

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is a nonprofit, tax-paying health insurer offering commercial, Medicare, and supplemental plans to individuals and employer groups across Massachusetts. It contracts with a broad provider network and pioneered the Alternative Quality Contract to tie payment to outcomes. Founded in 1937 and headquartered in Boston, it is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and serves about 3 million members.

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